🐐☕How the United States Sold an Entire Nation
The Story of U.S. Land Patents and the Birth of American Property Rights
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📜 Before there were deeds, mortgages, title insurance policies, or county recorders... there was the land patent.
In fact, every privately owned piece of land in the United States traces back to a moment when the federal government transferred ownership to an individual.
But how did that happen?
Who received the first U.S. land patent? Why were they created? And why do title professionals still care about documents issued more than 200 years ago?
Michael Holden takes us back to the beginning of American property ownership and explores the fascinating history of the document that helped transfer an entire nation into private hands…
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